Kevin Hope

Executive Director

St. Kitts and Nevis Chamber of Industry and Commerce

Biography:

Kevin Hope is currently the Executive Director at St Kitts-Nevis Chamber of Industry and Commerce. A Development Specialist by profession, with over fifteen years of policy and project-oriented experience working with Caribbean institutions, including the Caribbean Development Bank, Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, and the Government of Trinidad and Tobago. His specializations include economic development, public finance, international trade, banking and finance, and debt management.

He is an adjunct lecturer at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, in the Masters in International Trade Policy (MITP) programme and the Open Campus’ Continuing and Professional Education Programme. Current courses include International Trade Policy, Quantitative and Research Methods, Trade and Sustainable Development. 

Economics PhD candidate with Bournemouth University, UK; M.Sc. Financial and Business Economics, and B.Sc. Economics, from the University of West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. Executive Education in Economic Development and Macroeconomic Policymaking with Harvard Kennedy School and Columbia University respectively.

Nicole Griensewic

Executive Director

Region Nine Development Commission in Minnesota

Biografy:

Griensewic has served as Executive Director of Region Nine Development Commission since 2012. As executive director, Griensewic has made it a priority to foster collaboration and engagement by sharing Region Nine’s story both regionally and globally. Griensewic is an active board and committee member for multiple organizations throughout Minnesota. Griensewic is the immediate past President of the Greater Minnesota Partnership, and is the first female to chair the Executive Committee for the University of Minnesota’s Center for Transportation Studies, where she served as chair of the Governance Committee. Griensewic also served as secretary of Lutheran Social Services of Minnesota’s Governing Board of Directors and chaired the Governance Committee and currently serves as an advisory board member for South Central College’s Center for Agriculture. She serves on the executive committee for the MACS Board, Minnesotans for the American Community Survey Board of Directors and represents the Midwest on the National Assoc. of Development Orgs.’s (NADO) Board of Directors.

Griensewic is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and has completed course work through Harvard’s Kennedy School’s Executive Education. She received the 2017 Outstanding Recent Alumnus Award from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

Her professional background includes extensive private sector and non-profit leadership experience.

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